Smyrna times. [volume] (Smyrna, Del.) 1854-1987, 1887-10-19

80 say we all.
Mr.. Balfour has arrived in Ireland
and extraordinary measures are taken
for his protection.
The New York Herald is giving Col
onel Fred Grant vigorous support for
secretary Of stale.
General Master Workman Powderlv
has pretty strong hold on the Knights
OF Labor. He will hardly resign this
year.
Virginia Republicans feel confident
Of being able to elect a Republican,
United States Senator to succeed Rid.
dleberger.
Mr.. Powderly and all the other gen
eral officers of the Knights of Labor
except Barry and Bailey, rendered
their designations, but they were not
accepted NV
The additional details of the disas.
trouS ire at HankOw, China. give the
number of lives lost as 900 and the
value Of the property destroyed as g.
100000 taels. -
The Missouri Grand Lodge of Masons
mas voted to exclude all saloon keeDers
from memberships that order The
Masons are spelling reform with a
large-sized r this year
The directors of the Western Union
Telegraph Company met and reoroan-
lied. DR.. Norvin Green. the pres.
"enV uehied the report that tolls to dis
tant points would be raised. >7
The Belva Ann Lockwood and
george Francis Train party is the most
mover freak IN contemporary politics.
IL would run better at the dime muse
ums than it will in the country
A convention of delegates from all
the Republican clubs in New JERSEY as
sembles in Trenton, Wednesday. to or
game a State Republican League.
The OHIO Republicans have similar
organization.
The Newspaper men of Gotham are
looking forward to the elections with
some anxiety. There will be more
scratching and more trouble in getting
the returns than in any election held
during the last ten years.
The Bankers Association protests
against further coinage Of silver dollars
but the protest counts for nothing. The
silver-plated statesman propose to 20
on turning out the stove-lid coin as
long as vaults can be built to receive
them.
The Republicans. with the assistance
OF John K. COwen. S. Teackle Wallis
charles Marshall and other Independ-
ent. Democrats, are making strenuous
efforts to carry Baltimore city and the
state. Their central point of attack is
Senator German.
The President and Mrs. Cleveland
spent Sunday at Belle Meade farm
near Nashville, as the guests of Con
jackson. In Memphis, Saturday. Judoe
II. L. Elicit expired suddenly after
delivering the formal address of VOL
come to the President.
A meeting of clergyman of different
denominations to the number of 100
was held in New York Monday to do
wise means by which the traffic in linuor
ON the Sabbath might be prevented
A committee was appointed to cali a
pubic meeting to take action on the
subject. wy
Henry 5. Little, of Trenton. n. 7
publishes a fifteen-column reiterotion
OF his charges against Senator NcPber.
son OF bargaining to secure the cleo.
ton Of Gen.Sewell as Senator in return
for business favOrs. Mr.. Little declares
tnat senator Mcpherson ought to shoot
him Little if the charges are not
proven.
Henry George rests long enough
from his stumping tour through New
York to give expression to his belle
that either he or Frederick D. Grant
will be the next Secretary of State foI
New York; that he will poll about 200
600 votes.
Further particulars of the ATTEMPTED
tram robbery near Ell Paso. Tex.
Friday, show that the two robbers who
stopped the train and bursted open tn,
door of the express car with dVnamit,
were both killed. Express Messenoe
). Ernest Smith, after killing the frs
roooer, who was climbing into the car
got his shotgun and emptied the loa,
into the other rObber, whose BODY wa
found the next day near the spot wher
he was shot
The Citizens Reform League of Bal
tlmore scored point against the Cor
man ring Monnay by getting decision
from the bench empowering any citizel
70 petition for striking the names o
dead men from the registration books
1t took all day, though to decide tn
question, which involves 1000 cases
Dead men seem to have a good deal O
vitality in Baltimore when votes are a
stake.
BY the collapse of four-storv schOo
house IN the course of erection i'm tn
upper end of New York, on Monday
five men were crushed to death and
dozen more badly injured, one of tn
latter being a Catholic priest. TIL,
building was to have been used as .
school in connection with a CathOli
church and the priest who was iniure,
was supervising the work.
The formal "Opening" of the Scboo
for the feeble-minded and the HON,
for the aged and inGrm, located a
Millville, New Jersey, will or mr. n
P. NJ, Oct. 25th. Gov. Robert {
Green of New Jersey will preside ant
make an address. Ex-Sen. Alex q
Cattell and other eminent speaker
will be present. 1t is hope,I that botl
Gen'l Fisk and Miss Francis +. Willard
will be present and speak.
Two young people who recent,
were married in Canada applied to the
Treasury Department for permission
to have their wedding gifts admitted
to the United States free of duty "a,
the personal and household effects o
persons arriving in the United States. ,
The Department. denied the request
holding that as the effects had been in
use less than year they were .subiec
to duty. A plain moral to Young low
ers protrudes from this incident. The
moral of course is, beware of long en-
gagements. If this Canadian coupl,
had been married a year earlier thei
presents would have escaped the duty
The Presidents trip continues to b,
a series of memorable incidents, a sue
cessiOn of generous ovations ard e.